Process

Advantage

1

It helps you in protecting the confidential information of business.

2

It helps you in commercial benefit by reducing the competition.

3

It provides business owners and employers a degree of protection. A business owner cannot sell his business and then turn around and start a competitive business. A key employee cannot join a company, work there for several months, then leave and start a competing business in the same capacity.

Most courts will simply invalidate the parts in the non-compete agreement that are illegal and enforce the other provisions of the contract. Generally, it is enforceable in that case where contracting parties at the same footing. For instance, a co-founder of a startup who signed a non-compete clause can be held to it, but if a employee signs a non-compete clause with the employer the same may not be enforceable.